Movie won't autostart after hyperlink to a prior slide

[Harry II]

I have a circular PPT 2003 presentation with a short movie that autostarts on
each slide. By default, the slides are advanced via a timeout long enough to
just complete the movie. Action buttons allow the viewer to choose any slide
from the sequence and advance immediately to that slide in the loop. This
works fine going "forward" but not "backward". If you are on slide 4 and
choose to jump to slide 2, the slide changes OK but the movie does not
autostart. I have tried many permutaions to no avail - please rescue me from
my own endless loop of trying to fix this!

 

[Michael Koerner]

You need to put a blank slide with zero timings/transitions in front of all the slides you want to autostart, and link back to the blank slide. By default when you link back to a slide you come back after all the events on that slide have taken place.

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Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


I have a circular PPT 2003 presentation with a short movie that autostarts on
each slide. By default, the slides are advanced via a timeout long enough to
just complete the movie. Action buttons allow the viewer to choose any slide
from the sequence and advance immediately to that slide in the loop. This
works fine going "forward" but not "backward". If you are on slide 4 and
choose to jump to slide 2, the slide changes OK but the movie does not
autostart. I have tried many permutaions to no avail - please rescue me from
my own endless loop of trying to fix this!

 

[Harry II]

Thanks, Michael. You were right on with the blank slides AND the underlying
reasoning. Thanks!

I did run into an additional problem which I will search the community for -
on the three computers at the Science Center (running only PowerPoint
Viewer), two of six action buttons failed to function but they all function
on several other computers running full PowerPoint. I updated the Viewer to
no avail.